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So unfortunately in the end DRM typically hampers honest paying consumers while not really denying the $5 pirate crowd anything. :(
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Add to the cost of AACS, the President of Sony....
I hope all that are in favor of blue ray and horrahed it's triumph realize what has been done. If you think I am just blowing off steam, take a look at words from this interview:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/0...ref=technology I already had an A2, but I picked up an A3 a few days ago. No blue ray for me for a while... I am interested in how this will play out over the next year.. |
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And then there's the genius at Sony... yeesh.
Sure it's great to have a "premium" product, but not eveyone is going to pay premium prices, and 2-3 years later the tech landscape can change A LOT. I'm 110% certain that there are Chinese reverse engineering the things right now, it's inevitable. Wake up Sony... the only way to beat them is make their business model unprofitable and make your profits on volume market adoption... while you can! Nothing says you can't have models at various price points with various features! Some people will always buy the most expensive thing (I pick up my slightly used cameras that way when they discover they have no idea what to do with them....) because it's expensive and gives them some satisfaction... the other 90%+ will hold out until something cheaper and just as useful is available - and some will just buy cheap Chinese junk or knockoffs because it's what they can afford... Ultimately market penetration and mass adoption makes or breaks the product. Sony is apparently slightly clueless to this concept. Reality will come their way soon enough. |
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Dave, I think you are correct, but in a way, I also think we are way to close (as video people) to be objective.
We have knowledge and often an interest in Blu-ray because we want a stable delivery platform as well as a great way to watch movies. A lot of people just flat out don't care about it and will not get one until they trip over it. The Blu-ray adoption is tied to HDTV adoption, which has been on the market for 15+ years and it finally getting a little traction in households. I would trust that Sony has a strategy. Maybe they know the majority of people do not have HDTVs, so they are treating Blu-ray as a higher end piece until the HDTV install base is larger, then they can give up some margins and lower the price. Or maybe they know it will never be as big as DVD, but be just a part of the future. The very thing that makes Blu-ray so great (HDMI, Component & HDTV) also makes everything else better as well. Another reason not to give it away but make higher margins on the units they do sell. I think flash memory deliverables have a future for us video producers if devices would play files from them. A cheap reader that has HDMI out to your HDTV that has USB 2.0 and SD card slots would be inexpensive and easy if the memory gets cheap enough. The bottom line is the future looks a lot more complicated compared to VHS or DVD. And no technology will be a slam dunk. |
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http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-e...702#tabsection The DMP-BD30K isn't what I would call cheap, but I'm sure prices will drop. I hope other Blu-Ray player manufactures follow suit, and start producing players that can play AVCHD from flash memory or DVD. Right now, 16GB SDHC cards are retailing as low as about $60, and flash memory prices are forecast to plummet even further this year. 16GB is large enough to deliver a couple hours of good quality HD video, encoded as AVCHD. |
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i dont get what the hubbub over this is.
how much $ do you have to fork over for the CURRENT SD DVD's to encrypt it using macrovision's copy protection schema or arcos PER title @ a replication facility? isn't that $ comparable to aacs/bd+ copy protection schema for Blu-Ray discs? as for movies. indie content makers have been burning their own DVDRs for ages. the same will apply to blu-ray. it's just a media spec. whether or not you, the content creator, choose to enact copy protection on your content is upto you and your finances. the issue will arise if the BDR u burn CANNOT be played by a blu-ray player. that's when we should get MAD!
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Personally that aspect of Blu-Ray bums me the most. With HD DVD, the potential existed to create home burned HD DVDs (even burned on normal DVD5/9 media) with all sorts of cool HDi interactivity and features, just like what companies like Warner and especially Universal did fairly regularly. With home burned Blu-Ray movies, I'm pretty much limited to more or less standard DVD menus and interactivity. All the hubub about "next generation interactivity and features!" and its pretty much limited to studios with budgets for full on replication runs. Actually I believe that's happened on some models. Hopefully going forward this isn't an issue.
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That's right, the BD30 is supposed to play AVCHD from a standard DVD disk however for me, it will not. |
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hi philip,
people have been burning BDRs&DVDRs and playing it on Blu-Ray standalone without aacs. i dunno about replication, but replicators should take your business if you choose to NOT aacs. i haven't acquainted meself w/BD authoring yet, but u require java to author simple menus? that's kind of ridiculous. re: disc authoring tools. that's only temporary. studios held those same tools away from prosumers in the early days as well, but they all eventually trickled down. MS gave the HDi tools away quickly cause they wanted that format to succeeded but if there were only HD DVDs today they wouldn't be so quick to give those tools away. i think it's only a matter of time before things trickle down. Quote:
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Well it just seems to me the Sony is shooting itself in the foot (which they do very well and often). If I can not shoot HD on my Sony Camcorder, then edit it with Sony Vegas on a Sony Computer with a BD Burner and then Play it on a Sony BD player, Sony may have a problem. Two geeks bought computers with stickers saying they were Vista Ready and when that was not true their lawsuit against Microsoft was given class action status. I'd happy if that happened to Sony.
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It really isn't a case of anything trickling down. Blu-Ray won primarily by gathering a much greater share of studio support. This was accomplished partially by integrating more anti-piracy measures than HD DVD. One of those anti-piracy measures is that Java discs *only* play if they have AACS on them. And that basically locks out the little people from creating Java discs.
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1. i assumed that all profiles are backwards compatible for playback of video only. i personally don't care for the 'cool' java stuff. i just want my 1080p+lossless audio for playback purposes.
2. replicating with aacs required is ridiculous. content makers have NO CHOICE but to enact copyright protection on their customers? most low-end indie SD DVD's aren't macrovision enabled. marketwise they want more people to watch their content, not less. 3. last point. so, this means there'll be little to no indie movies for BD? man that really, REALLY sux =*(. Quote:
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Interesting article about BD replication. I hope Universal and Paramount can find room in there soon, lots of good movies/shows I'd like to see from them :)
http://www.homemediamagazine.com/new...ticle_ID=12404
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